I'm personally OK with 'ast'. Did I write anything that made you think I wasn't? Of course things are contextual. In VMS one took "AST" to mean "Asynchronous System Trap". But even in VMS it was not confusing in a parsing context. As for "obviously sarcastic", I'm afraid there's this thing called "Poe's Law". On 9 May 2018 at 23:57, webwarrior <reg@webwarrior.ws> wrote:
Richard O'Keefe wrote
First, my message was *defending* most of the short names that someone else was attacking. For the record, I am *far* more worried about the fragility of typical Smalltalk code than I am about method names, which are generally pretty good.
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If by "someone else" you mean me, I was obviously sarcastic. If you are OK with GCD, LCM, ULP and other abbreviations, why get rid of AST? It's well-known and unambigous term in respective area, that is also usually used as identifier in other programming languages and libraries (e.g. ast module in Python, Microsoft.FSharp.Compiler.Ast module in F#).
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